Charles Darwin: Evolution
Anna Sproule
Hardcover
(Exley Publications Ltd, May 31, 1990)
"Charles Darwin" is one of the first titles in the new biography series, "Scientists Who Have Changed The World". This series is aimed at young people between the ages of 11 and 14 and is designed to encourage and create in children a greater awareness and understanding of science and its methods. "Charles Darwin" is a lively and concise narrative about the scientist who created turmoil in Victorian Society with his theory on evolution. In his controversial book "The Origin of Species", Darwin outlined his belief, based on years of careful scientific observation, that animals and humans evolved by means of natural selection and were not created by God. The story of Charles Darwin is immensely important in terms of the way we view the world around us now and was revolutionary in scientific thinking and reasoning in the static and highly religious society of the Victorian Age.